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JK Tallinna Kalev
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Jalgpalliklubi Tallinna Kalev is an Estonian football club, based in Tallinn, that plays in the Esiliiga, the 2nd level in Estonian football league system. Founded as Jalgpalliselts Meteor in 1909, the changed its name to Tallinna Kalev in 1911. They play their matches at the 11,500 seater Kalev Central Stadium. Jalgpalliselts Meteor was formed in 1909 by Tallinn students Julius Reinans, the first coach of the team was an English flax merchant John Urchard, who also ordered first set of football shirts. The first official game in Estonia was played between JS Meteor and Merkuur Tallinn on 6 June 1909, Meteor won the match 4–2. Two years later, in 1911 the team joined Estonian Sports Association Kalev, on the 1920s the biggest opposition of Estonian football was between JK Tallinna Kalev and Sport Tallinn. The first derby of Tallinn was played in a match between the two teams on 9 May 1920. From this game on, the stadiums capacity of 3,000 were almost always sold out for the matches between Kalev and Sport. In 1923, Kalev managed to win their first Estonian championship, against all odds Tallinna Kalev achieved their second championship. This time the old rival Tallinna Sport seemed to be better, with the game ending 0,0 and SK Tallinna Sport went on to beat Jalgpalliklubi Tallinn 3,0, Tallinna Kalev now needed to win Võitleja Narva with at least 8 goals. By half-time, Kalev led 7,0 and adding four with the remainder of the game meant that Kalev clinched their second Estonian championship after 7 years, there is a speculation circling around Estonian historians, that Kalev won the championship thanks to match fixing. Võitleja Narva and their goalkeeper Viruvere looked paralyzed, they let Kalev score 11 goals, aleksander Lugenberg-Mändvere came up with an idea to help Kalev win championship, he was a member of the JK Kalev board and from Narva. Somebody asked him after the game, How much did you pay for a goal, and Lugenberg reportedly answered 250 krones. In 1960, Kalev became the first and the only Estonian club to appear in the Soviet Top League, an opportunity arose when Football Federation of the Soviet Union decided to involve more Soviet Republics and regions to the Top League, including Baltics. Their stint in Class A, as it was known at the time. The club finished 19th in 1960 and 22nd in the 1961 season in 22-team league, in their first season, they managed to finish 19th of 22 teams, finishing in front of only three teams, Spartak Vilnius, Neftyanik Baku and Chişinău Moldova. The following season remained their last season in the top tier of Soviet football, as they were placed at the last, 22nd place and were relegated. Despite poor results, Kalev managed to some good games, for instance 0,0 against Lev Yashins led Dynamo Moscow and a 2,2 with Spartak Moscow

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Association football
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies making it the worlds most popular sport, the game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal, players are not allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play, unless they are goalkeepers. Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, the team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, the Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football, the first written reference to the inflated ball used in the game was in the mid-14th century, Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word soccer was split off in 1863, according to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford -er abbreviation of the word association. Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called football in the United Kingdom and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States. People in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand use either or both terms, although national associations in Australia and New Zealand now primarily use football for the formal name. According to FIFA, the Chinese competitive game cuju is the earliest form of football for which there is scientific evidence, cuju players could use any part of the body apart from hands and the intent was kicking a ball through an opening into a net. It was remarkably similar to football, though similarities to rugby occurred. During the Han Dynasty, cuju games were standardised and rules were established, phaininda and episkyros were Greek ball games. An image of an episkyros player depicted in low relief on a vase at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens appears on the UEFA European Championship Cup, athenaeus, writing in 228 AD, referenced the Roman ball game harpastum. Phaininda, episkyros and harpastum were played involving hands and violence and they all appear to have resembled rugby football, wrestling and volleyball more than what is recognizable as modern football. As with pre-codified mob football, the antecedent of all football codes. Non-competitive games included kemari in Japan, chuk-guk in Korea and woggabaliri in Australia, Association football in itself does not have a classical history. Notwithstanding any similarities to other games played around the world FIFA have recognised that no historical connection exists with any game played in antiquity outside Europe. The modern rules of football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played in the public schools of England

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Estonia
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Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia, across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands and islets in the Baltic Sea, covering 45,339 km2 of land and water, and is influenced by a humid continental climate. The territory of Estonia has been inhabited since at least 6500 BC, in 1988, during the Singing Revolution, the Estonian Supreme Soviet issued the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration in defiance of Soviet rule, and independence was restored on 20 August 1991. Estonia is a parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties. Its capital and largest city is Tallinn, with a population of 1.3 million, it is one of the least-populous member states of the European Union, Eurozone, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, OECD and Schengen Area. Estonia is a country with an advanced, high-income economy that is among the fastest growing in the EU. Its Human Development Index ranks very highly, and it performs favourably in measurements of economic freedom, civil liberties, the 2015 PISA test places Estonian high school students 3rd in the world, behind Singapore and Japan. Citizens of Estonia are provided with health care, free education. Since independence the country has developed its IT sector, becoming one of the worlds most digitally advanced societies. In 2005 Estonia became the first nation to hold elections over the Internet, in the Estonian language, the oldest known endonym of the Estonians was maarahvas, meaning country people or people of the land. The land inhabited by Estonians was called Maavald meaning Country Parish or Land Parish, one hypothesis regarding the modern name of Estonia is that it originated from the Aesti, a people described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Germania. The historic Aesti were allegedly Baltic people, whereas the modern Estonians are Finno-Ugric, the geographical areas between Aesti and Estonia do not match, with Aesti being further down south. Ancient Scandinavian sagas refer to a land called Eistland, as the country is called in Icelandic. Early Latin and other ancient versions of the name are Estia and Hestia, esthonia was a common alternative English spelling prior to 1921. Human settlement in Estonia became possible 13,000 to 11,000 years ago, the oldest known settlement in Estonia is the Pulli settlement, which was on the banks of the river Pärnu, near the town of Sindi, in south-western Estonia. According to radiocarbon dating it was settled around 11,000 years ago, the earliest human inhabitation during the Mesolithic period is connected to Kunda culture, which is named after the town of Kunda in northern Estonia. At that time the country was covered with forests, and people lived in communities near bodies of water

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Estonian Football Association
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The Estonian Football Association is the governing body of football, beach soccer and futsal in Estonia, established on 14 December 1921. It organizes the league, including the championship which is called Meistriliiga, Estonian Cup. EJL became a member of FIFA in 1923, but following Estonias annexation by the Soviet Union it was disbanded and it became a member again in 1992 after Estonia reinstated its independence. Estonian Football Association Official Site Old Estonian Football Association Official Site Estonia at FIFA Site Estonia at UEFA Site

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Tallinna JK
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Tallinna JK or simply TJK is a defunct Estonian football club, based in Tallinn. The club was founded in 1921 and later re-established in 2002, wismari Staadion is their home stadium. On 4 January 2008 Tallinna JK and SK Legion Tallinn merged into Tallinna JK Legion, following the appointment of Hungarian Franz Woggenhuber as coach in 1922, Tallinna Jalgpalliklubi became the first football club in Estonia to have a foreign coach

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SK Tallinna Sport
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SK Tallinna Sport is a defunct Estonian football club, founded in 1912 and then re-established in 2003. The club won nine league titles before Estonia became a part of Soviet Union. The club also played bandy in the years, becoming Estonian champions of this sport eleven times in the 1920s and 1930s. At last the club played in the III Liiga, northern zone of Estonian Third league, the club finished 1st in 2007 and was dissolved after the beginning of the year 2008. Estonian Championship,1921,1922,1924,1925,1927,1929,1931,1932,1933 Estonian Cup,1938 * Eastern Zone** Northern Zone

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Meistriliiga
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Meistriliiga is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football championship. The league was founded in 1992, and is semi-professional with amateur clubs allowed to compete, as in most countries with low temperatures in winter time, the season starts in March and ends in November. Meistriliiga consists of ten clubs, all play each other four times. After each season the team is relegated and the second last team plays a two-legged playoff for a place in the Meistriliiga. Le Coq, an Estonian brewery company, signed a cooperation agreement with the Estonian Football Association. The following 10 clubs will compete in the Meistriliiga during the 2017 season, the table that follows is accurate as of the end of the 2016 season. Teams in bold play in the Meistriliiga 2017 season, numbers in bold are the record numbers in each column. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win,1 for a draw, championship matches, relegation matches and relegation tournament matches involving clubs of lower leagues are not counted. In 1992 Preliminary Round matches were played in two groups, the results of the matches played between teams in same group were taken to second round, thus counted twice, in this table these results are counted once. The table is sorted by all-time points, notes Note 1, 1999–2003 FC Levadia Maardu, 2004– FC Levadia. Not to be confused with FC Levadia Tallinn 2001-2003 a separate team owned by the steel company Levadia, Estonian Football Association Estonia - List of Champions, RSSSF. com

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FC Flora
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Football Club Flora, also known as Flora Tallinn internationally, is a professional football club, based in Tallinn, Estonia. They compete in the Meistriliiga, the top tier of Estonian football, founded in 1990, the club was one of the founding members of the Meistriliiga, and is one of two clubs which have never been relegated from the Estonian top division. Flora has won 10 Meistriliiga titles,7 Estonian Cups and 9 Estonian Supercups, in international club football, Flora has won 1 Livonia Cup trophy. Flora was founded on 10 March 1990 by the current president Aivar Pohlak as an effort to revive Estonian football during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the team was mainly based on ethnic Estonian players from Lõvid youth team. Flora didnt have a start in the Estonian SSR Football Championship, finishing last in the 1990 season. The situation changed after the restoration of independence and formation of the Meistriliiga in 1992, after 52 years of foreign occupation, Estonian clubs could once again play for the Estonian League Championship title. Flora finished the first season in place, while Norma won the first league title. After the first season, the league was reformed to run from Autumn to Spring, Flora finished the 1992–93 season as runners-up with 34 points behind Norma, who claimed their second league title with 42 points. In 1993, Roman Ubakivi was hired as manager, the season ended with Flora and Norma both on equal 36 points. Flora won the Championship Playoff match 5–2 and was awarded the league title and they made their European debut in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, losing 0–6 on aggregate to Odense in the preliminary round. Flora managed to defend the title in the 1994–95 season and won the 1994–95 Estonian Cup, in January 1996, Teitur Thordarson replaced Ubakivi as a manager. Disappointing start in the 1995–96 season left the team in place behind Lantana. Lembit Rajala won the scoring title with 16 goals. Flora finished the 1996–97 season in place behind Lantana once again. The club won their first league title under Thordarson in the 1997–98 season, the league format was changed in 1998, and Flora managed win another title in the same calendar year. Flora also met Italian Milan in a match, ending in a 1–2 defeat. Since 1999, Meistriliiga adopted the current league format with the running from Spring to Autumn within a single calendar year. Andres Oper, the top goalscorer in three previous seasons, left the team in July

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JK Narva Trans
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The club was founded as Avtomobilist in 1979, changed its name to Autobaas in 1989, and to Narva Trans in 1991. Narva Trans was one of the members of the Meistriliiga. Narva Trans has won 1 Estonian Cup and 2 Estonian Supercups, the club was founded in 1979 as FC Avtomobilist and competed in the Estonian SSR Football Championships. In 1989, the club were renamed to FC Autobaas, the club were renamed again to JK Narva Trans in 1991. In 1992, Narva Trans played in the inaugural Meistriliiga season, the club finished the 2006 season as runners-up. Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality

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FC Kuressaare
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Football Club Kuressaare is a football club, based in Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia. The clubs home ground is the Kuressaare Stadium, football Club Kuressaare was founded on 14 March 1997. Its predecessor was a youth club B. B. Sport, Kuressaare began playing in 1997, in the Western Conference of the III liiga. The clubs first president and manager was Aivar Pohlak, in 1998, Kuressaare was promoted to Esiliiga and finished the season 6th under the new manager Jan Važinski. Most of the players were Saaremaa locals who were reinforced by players from the Flora system. Kuressaare won the 1999 Esiliiga and were promoted to Meistriliiga, mark Švets was chosen player of the year. Kuressaare finished 2000 Meistriliiga, its first season in the top-flight Estonian league, goalkeeper Rain Vessenberg was chosen player of the year. In 2001, Kuressaare went through a period under the new manager Zaur Tšilingarašvili. In 2002, Sergei Zamogilnõi became the manager of Kuressaare and finished 2002 Esiliiga 2nd after Valga, Kuressaare won the play-offs against Lootus Kohtla-Järve and were promoted to Mesitriliiga. Kuressaare stay in the league was cut short yet again as the club finished 2003 Meistriliiga season 8th and were relegated. The team was restructured in 2004, using players from Sörve and were promoted back to the Meistriliiga despite finishing only 5th due to the expansion of the league,2005 Meistriliiga season was the most successful in the clubs history, winning 7 and drawing 6 games out of 36. The 8–1 victory over Dünamo Tallinn became the new club record, nonetheless, the team finished 8th and were relegated after losing the relegation play-offs against Ajax Lasnamäe. Kuressaare earned its way back to the Meistriliiga in 2006 Esiliiga but were again relegated in the following Meistriliiga season. The team finished 2008 Esiliiga 2nd and were promoted to Meistriliiga, Kuressaare remained in the Meistriliiga for 5 seasons from 2009 to 2013 when the club was relegated to Esiliiga after finishing the season 10th. In the 2015 Esiliiga season Kuressaare relegated to Esiliiga B for the very first time, note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality, see Sörve As of 9 November 2014

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Paide Linnameeskond
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Paide Linnameeskond, or simply Paide, is a football club, based in Paide, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. Founded in 2004, the club has played in the Meistriliiga since 2009 and have never relegated from the Estonian top division. Paide Linnameeskond was founded as a football club in 2004. In 2007, the club was promoted to Esiliiga, the team finished the 2008 Esiliiga season in fourth place and was promoted to the Meistriliiga. In 2010, former Paide Linnameeskond and the Estonia national football team player Meelis Rooba was hired as manager, Paide Linnameeskond finished the 2014–15 Estonian Cup season as runners-up, being defeated by Nõmme Kalju 0–2 in the final. Rooba resigned as manager after the 2016 season and was replaced by former Paide Linnameeskond player Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko, Estonian Cup Runners-up, 2014–15 As of 1 March 2017 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality

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Tartu JK Tammeka
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Tartu Jalgpallikool Tammeka, commonly known as Tartu Tammeka or simply Tammeka, is a football club based in Tartu, Estonia. Founded in 1989, the club has played in the Meistriliiga since 2005 and have never relegated from the Estonian top division. Tammeka was founded in 1989, as a youth academy, the club first began playing in the Estonian football league system in 2000, when Tammeka joined the III liiga. Tammekas debut was a success, as the team ended the season with first place and 46 points out of the possible 60, vitali Gussev was the teams top goalscorer with 22 goals. Tammeka was promoted to the II liiga and in 2001, to the Esiliiga, the club established itself in the Esiliiga by placing 6th in 2002 and 7th in 2003. Since 2003, Tammeka has also competed in the Estonian Cup, Tammeka triumphed in the 2004 Esiliiga season by winning the league and being promoted to the Meistriliiga, while Oliver Konsa was the leagues top goalscorer with 25 goals. The Blue-whites had a debut in the Meistriliiga by defeating Dünamo 9–0 at Tamme Stadium. Tammeka ended their first season in the Meistriliiga in 7th place, in 2006, Sergei Ratnikov was hired as manager. Under Ratnikov, Tammeka finished the 2006 Meistriliiga season in 6th place, in an effort to join the Tallinn and Narva based teams in the title fight, Tammeka merged with Maag and became Maag Tammeka. Despite pooled resources, the club lost several key players, Maag Tammeka finished the 2007 Meistriliiga season in 5th place and the 2008 season, in 7th. The club had success in the Estonian Cup, as Maag Tammeka reached the 2007–08 Estonian Cup finals but was defeated by Flora 1–3. After the 2008 season, the deal with Maag ended. Due to ended sponsorship deal, Tammeka had to operate with a smaller budget, reserve team coach Norbert Hurt was hired as manager and several reserve team players were promoted to the first-team squad. Despite a poor start in 2009, Tammeka managed to finish the season in 7th place, in 2010, the former Estonia national football team player Marko Kristal was hired as manager. Kristal started building the team around youth system players Albert Prosa, Kaarel Kiidron, Tammeka finished the 2010 Meistriliiga season in 6th place. Despite a good start in 2011, results began to drop in the half of the season. The team finished the season in 7th place, while Prosa scored 22 goals, the performance Tammeka youth players didnt go unnoticed and Tammeka lost several key players in winter 2011–12, including Prosa, Kiidron and Tenno. This reflected on the team on 20 July 2012, Joti Stamatopoulos was brought in to replace Tiirik, Stamatopoulos failed to make a difference and Tammeka finished the 2012 Meistriliiga season in 10th place, amassing only 20 points

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Viljandi JK Tulevik
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Viljandi JK Tulevik, commonly known as Viljandi Tulevik, or simply as Tulevik, is a football club, based in Viljandi, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. Founded in 1912, the club was disbanded in 1940 and re-established in 1992 as one of the members of the Meistriliiga. Re-established in 1992 as Viljandi JK, Tulevik are a member of the Meistriliiga. The club finished the 1992–93 season last and were relegated to the Esiliiga, Tulevik returned to the Meistriliiga in 1997, when another Flora affiliated club Lelle moved to Viljandi. Tulevik finished the 1999 Meistriliiga season as runners-up and also played in two successive Estonian Cup finals in 1999 and 2000, losing to Levadia 2–3 and 0–2 respectively. Since 2011 Tulevik has once again become an independent club and was relegated to the II liiga, Tulevik finished the 2014 Esiliiga season in 5th place and defeated Lokomotiv 1–1 on aggregate on away goal in the promotion play-offs, thus earning promotion to the Meistriliiga. Tuleviks stay in the top division proved short-lived, as the finished the 2015 season in last place and was relegated. The club won the 2016 Esiliiga, and were again promoted to the Meistriliiga. Meistriliiga Runners-up,1999 Esiliiga Winners,2016 Estonian Cup Runners-up, 1998–99, the stadium is located at Ranna puiestee 1, Viljandi. Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules, players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality